Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Afro-Am's poor record in its early years remains undisputed, there is some question as to whether the problems was a dearth of potential faculty or Harvard's lack of commitment to finding them...
Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, who was the first Black to be tenured at Harvard and was a member of the Rosovsky committee, says that while he disagreed with the proposal for a full-scale department, the problems with Afro-Am had nothing to do with Black professors being unwilling to join...
...fact that I would have said no had nothing to do with me being Black," Kilson says. "I don't think there was much problem there because most of the appointments we were offering were joint appointments between Afro-Am and another, more established department...
Hall, who was one of three student members of the faculty search committee for Afro-American Studies, points to a failed attempt to court University of Chicago historian John Hope Franklin as an example of this trend...
During the same time period that Harvard searched in vain, Yale was able to construct a prominent Afro-American studies department were colleagues at Yale decades ago: Gates, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and Cornel R. West...